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UB to hold 167th commencement

By SUE WUETCHER

Some 4,818 students are candidates to receive degrees during
UB’s 167th general commencement and 14 other commencement
ceremonies to be held May 3 through May 18.

President Satish K. Tripathi will deliver remarks at the general
commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m. May 12 in Alumni
Arena, North Campus. Paul M. Stephan is the student speaker.

Former UB president John B. Simpson will receive the Chancellor
Charles P. Norton Medal, the university’s highest honor.

Edmond J. Gicewicz, emeritus member of the UB Council, and
longtime UB faculty member and SUNY Distinguished Teaching
Professor Diane Christian will receive the UB President’s
Medal in recognition of extraordinary service to UB.

Also during the ceremony, a SUNY honorary doctorate will be
presented to Calyampudi R. Rao, a National Medal of Science winner
and professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University.

Tripathi and Provost Charles F. Zukoski will confer
bachelor’s and associate degrees from the College of Arts and
Sciences.

Forty-two students will receive special recognition during the
ceremony.

Vocalists are Maria G. Pedro and Zachary D. Rich, both music
theatre majors.

The 2013 commencement season begins on May 3 with ceremonies for
the schools of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Dental
Medicine.

Mary Woolley, president and chief executive officer, Research!
America, will speak at the medical school ceremony, which will take
place at 1:30 p.m. in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Tripathi will confer degrees.

Kathleen T. O’Loughlin, executive director and chief
operating officer, American Dental Association, will address
graduates at the dental school ceremony, which will be held at 6:30
p.m. in the Center for the Arts. Tripathi also will confer
degrees.

The rest of the commencement schedule:

Biomedical Sciences (undergraduate and graduate), 6 p.m., May
9, Center for the Arts. The speaker will be Derek LeRoith,
professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Endocrinology,
Diabetes and Bone Disease, Mt. Sinai Hospital. Tripathi will confer
degrees.

Graduate School of Education, 9 a.m., May 10, Center for the
Arts. No speaker is expected; Tripathi will confer degrees.

College of Arts and Sciences (graduate), 1 p.m., May 10, Center
for the Arts. No speaker is expected; Tripathi will confer
degrees.

School of Management (undergraduate), 1 p.m., May 10, Alumni
Arena, North Campus. No speaker is expected; Zukoski will confer
degrees.

School of Architecture and Planning, 5 p.m., May 10, Center for
the Arts. Bill McKibbon, author, educator and environmentalist,
will speak. Zukoski will confer degrees.

School of Management (graduate), 5 p.m., May 10, Alumni Arena.
No speaker is expected; Tripathi will confer degrees.

School of Nursing, 9 a.m., May 11, Alumni Arena. No speaker is
expected; Tripathi will confer degrees.

School of Social Work, 9 a.m., May 11, Center for the Arts.
Michael Reisch, Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social
Justice, University of Maryland, will deliver remarks. Zukoski will
confer degrees.

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 5 p.m., May 11,
Center for the Arts. Outgoing Dean Wayne Anderson will address
graduates. Michael Cain, vice president for health sciences and
dean of the medical school, will confer degrees and offer opening
remarks.

Law School, 3 p.m., May 18, Center for the Arts. Jonathan
Lippman, New York State chief judge and chief judge of the Court of
Appeals, will speak. Tripathi will confer degrees.

READER COMMENT

We are coming in from Texas to see our granddaughter receive her degree in nursing. You have no idea how proud we are of her. She has overcome so much, including having cancer when she was 8 years old. She spent a lot of time at Roswell and that is where she did her preceptorship. Stacee is so hoping to work there in there oncology department. Go Stacee, we all love you.

Diane Johnston-Seward

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